fib

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English

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Etymology 1

Probably from fable; compare fibble-fable (“nonsense”).

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

  1. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
    • Henry James
      They are very serious; they don't tell fibs.
  2. (informal, rare) A liar.
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  1. (informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
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Etymology 2

Shortened from fibula.

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

  1. (medicine, informal) The fibula.
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Etymology 3

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  1. (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.
    • 1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎[1], 2nd edition, published 1788, To Fib:
      Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse.
    • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 16:
      As Biggs and his party arrived, I heard Hawkins say to Berry, "For heaven’s sake, my boy, fib with your right, and mind his left hand!"
    • 1865, Grantley Berkeley, “Eton Boys”, in My Life and Recollections, volume 1, page 311:
      Then there was a wild scuffle and a furious outcry, and all the bargemen for a moment seemed to hug me and themselves too; when, as there was no room to hit out, in the phraseology of the ring, I fibbed at half-a-dozen waistcoats and faces with all my might and main.
    • 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Turns Beggar”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood‎[2], page 207:
      Quoth he, "Thou dost surely jest when thou sayest that thou dost not understand such words. Answer me this: Hast thou ever fibbed a chouse quarrons in the Rome pad for the loure in his bung?"

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Etymology 4

Short for Fibonacci.

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

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  1. (neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

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Volapük

Noun

fib (nominative plural fibs)

  1. weakness

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declension of fib
singular plural
nominative fib fibs
genitive fiba fibas
dative fibe fibes
accusative fibi fibis
vocative 1 o fib! o fibs!
predicative 2 fibu fibus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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